Music on Stage Conference 2010
Music on Stage Conference, Rose Bruford College, Lamorbey Park, Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup DA15 9DF
23 - 24 October 2010
Saturday 9.30am - 5.15pm
Sunday 9.30am - 3.00pm
Following the success of our two previous international conferences, the Third International Conference “Music on Stage” covers three main streams: opera, musical theatre and performance. This year we have twenty-seven papers from seven countries. The conference takes place in the idyllic grounds of Rose Bruford. Preferential rates for delegates have been secured at the neighbouring Holiday Inn, Bexley and the whole conference is supported by HotelsCombined.com offering ten percent hotel discount to all delegates.
Keynote speaker - Dr Michael Burden, Dean, Reader in Music and Fellow in Opera Studies, New College, Oxford.
For further details please contact Dr F. Jane Schopf at fiona.schopf@bruford.ac.uk
The conference fee is £130.00. For booking form and payment details please contact Gail.ellis@bruford.ac.uk
Papers:
Opera Stream:
Ben Curry (Rose Bruford): The first aria of Mozart’s Idomeneo: Form, reference and resistance
Jennifer Daniel (Leeds): Opera, ‘operetta’ and the ‘block-busting musical’: Opera North and the contract of generic expectation
Dr Anne Desler (Rose Bruford): "Nicolini in the Underworld: Fighting Beasts, Old Age and other Monsters".
Michael Enscot (Trinity College, London): The Original 1877 version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer
Dr Nirmali Fenn (Worcester College, Oxford): Peter Maxwell Davies’s puppet: The dancer of Vesalii Icones
Céline Frigau (Paris): Staging Without a Stage Director at the Théâtre royal Italien
Dr Laura Hamer (Rose Bruford, Birmingham Conservatoire): The Cunning Little Vixen Ensnared and Emancipated
Riccardo La Spina (Oakley, California): On Strength of Character - Saverio Mercadante and the Development of the Romantic Baritone
Emily Mills (Rochester, New York): Gender and Madness in Nineteenth Century Italian Opera: Verdi’s Madmen
Michael Reynolds (Rose Bruford): Rearranging the triangle. The staging of L’Ingenu Libertin in Paris in 1907 and the subsequent incorporation of certain of its elements in Der Rosenkavalier in 1911
Charlotte Purkis (University of Winchester): ‘The Immortality of the Hour: creative engagements and mythic construction in the critical reception of Rutland Boughton’s music-drama, 1910-1932…..’
Dr. Vanessa L. Rogers (Rhodes College, USA): Orchestras on Stage in the English Georgian-Era Playhouse
Anette Schafer (Bern) and Laura Möckli (Mainz- Bern): Singers as Actors: Gesture in early nineteenth century Parisian opera and art
Dr Áine Sheil (University of York) and Craig Vear (University of Salford): The Cape Jeremy Affair: towards an understanding of the possibilities of 21st-century opera
Musical Theatre stream:
Dr Siân Adiseshiah (University of Lincoln): ‘“We Said We Wouldn’t Look Back”: Utopia and Nostalgia in Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade’s Salad Days
Rebecca Applin (Anglia Ruskin): Musical Theatre and Fairy Tale: Considerations
Prof. Paul Barker and Zachery Dunbar (Central School, University of London): Concert music theatre
Ewa Czachorowska-Zygor (Cracow, Poland): A multitude of styles in Adam Walaciński's theatre music: Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Juliusz Słowacki's The Silver Dream of Salomea and Tadeusz Różewicz’s The Trap.
Steve Dykes (Rose Bruford): The Spoils: the evolution of a musical play
Dr. Falk Hübner (Leiden University, The Netherlands): Entering the stage - musicians as performers in contemporary musical theatre
Dr. Karl Katschthaler (University of Debrecen): Kurtág on Stage? Between Pure Music and Latent Musical Theatre
Prof. Christian Matjias (University of Michigan): Prescribed Bedfellows: Musicality and Recorded Media in Dance
Caroline Wilkins (Brunel University): ‘A sound theater of objects’
Performance stream:
Barry Mitchell (Rose Bruford): Transforming Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge
Dr. Žak Ozmo (Director of L’Avventura, London): The English Guitar in the Eighteenth-Century Playhouse
Joana Resende (independent scholar and performer): The Double Legacy of Francis Poulenc
Elizabeth Weinfield (New York University): Performance, or Self-Promotion? Giorgione, Watteau, and the Politics of Music Making
A selection of papers from the 2008 conference is to be published in the journal Studies in Musical Theatre, Intellect Press, this summer.
14/05/2010